Jan Vojáček

Agreed. Good atmosphere too with the Burgh Young Team.

Told you it would be tight Good competitive game that. And a draw was probably about the right result. Arthurlie missing a late sitter, but Pidge making a terrific save in either half.

A lot of Arthurlie's defeats have been by a single goal margin, and with Johnstone's league positioning I can't see either team dishing out a skudding tbh. I'm expecting it to be a pretty tense, tetchy, low scoring affair. Should be a cracking crowd though. Looking forward to it!

The 5-0 scoreline was maybe a freak. But we weren't in good form and a result like that had been coming at the time. If we'd lost 3-0 that night I don't think that would've been much of a surprise. And Stranraer deserved a very comfortable three points. We've turned a corner since then. No doubt about that. Mainly because Mark Durnan is back. But we've won (iirc) nine games at Stair Park in our history. And Faz will 100% be rotating the squad between now and the end of the season. Tony Wallace has played every single game, is 33 now and is a huge player for us. So he'll drop to the bench for a spell I reckon. Personally I wouldn't be risking Michael Ruth from the start and I'd probably be tempted to give Finlay Gray a breather at some point over the next few weeks. On the more positive side from a Clyde point-of-view, Kalvin Orsi has been struggling to for gametime basically all season because of injury. But could be a massive player for us in the playoffs. So I'd imagine he'll get a start if he's fit; and it'll maybe be a chance for guys like James Graham, Marc Kelly and Aaron Healy to show what they can do. None of them have had so much as a sniff for about a month now, so you'd like to think they'd be keen to grab a chance. Never ever put your faith in Sons getting a result at Stair Park though.

Nope. They absolutely had our number that season. Beat us 3-0 at home and 2-1 away. And we drew 2-2 at home (after being 2-0 up against 10 men with 88 minutes played) and 4-4 away (after going behind 3 times and having 10 men). They then got relegated, played us again in the Betfred Cup a few months later and won 3-1.

That was a largely atrocious spectacle. But we deserved to win, and keeping a clean sheet in those circumstances is no easy feat. So fair play to the guys for that. It's pretty pointless to read a great deal into the game. But I'm glad that we got over the line with three points to keep this decent run going, and there is a real positivity around the place at the moment. I don't think I've ever seen us beat a McCall team before, so that's a nice added bonus. On the pitch there wasn't a great deal to talk about. Cian Newbury had another good game, neat and tidy in possession and winning plenty of second balls. Finlay Gray and Blair Malcolm both toiled hard and the 'win the midfield, win the game' mantra was proved correct. Mark Durnan, obviously, is a huge player for us. And he was superb at the back again. It's not just how good he is at defending, it's how much of a leader he is. Barking out orders, demanding things from his teammates. A real standout. This will attract Stenny fans no doubt, but I think he's a better player than Gregor Buchanan. Buchanan has had a superb season (just as he did last year) but if you asked me a straight up if I would swap Durnan for Buchanan I wouldn't. Jinky's goal was a superb effort. And all game you felt he had a wee bit of match winning magic in him. Both teams were probably guilty of not shooting enough in the conditions. He was the exception. He's came onto a game recently. Since East Fife he's been really impressive and I think he'd benefitting from starting a run of games for the first time all season. Having the playoffs secured hopefully means we can now rest a few (and wrap a few in cotton wool) until May. Albeit whilst still hopefully keeping the momentum going. I suspect we'll change things a fair bit for Stranraer next week - not what Clyde fans will want me to say. I've said since they appointed McCall that Clyde will be fine. Today I actually started to doubt that. I can't put my finger on it, but I didn't get a good vibe from that Clyde team at all. You can't really judge a side in those conditions. But they didn't look like a side scrapping for their lives. And they didn't really look like a side playing for their manager. I think they have some excellent players. Lee Hamilton and Jordan Allan especially. But the whole package today just didn't look great. A few players looked like they didn't fancy it, I didn't like McCall hooking Kabia and Rennie at half-time (well I did. But I wouldn't as a Clyde fan) and I think they played a very risky game by attempting to sneak a 0-0 in the second-half. One which, ultimately, backfired. Even in the first-half they didn't do anywhere near enough with the wind. Corners and free-kicks were basically the only time they looked dangerous. Save for Ray Grant hitting the post with a looping volley. They played us off the park and deservedly won at NDP a few months back. Today? Meh. I didn't see a lot.

Is this due to the wind, the manager of the month curse. Or both?

Getting to half-time at 0-0 is about as good an outcome as we could've hoped for given the conditions. Although we looked good early on and put together some really nice stuff when the ball wasn't going into orbit. Looking forward to the wind machine being turned off at half-time.

We've not actually had a game called off at home yet this season, have we? A few (Peterhead especially) must've been very touch and go. But I'd be surprised and disappointed if this was called off. It's been a bit rainy at times, but nothing serious. And it's been really mild.

I've done this for my own articles with Sons players and the difference it makes to views is incredible. I'm not judged on page views (thankfully) but for reporters who are it's an easy way to boost your figures.

Ah mate. That's absolutely class.

At least they had plenty of sexy Samba soccer to enjoy in the Lowland League Cup final this afternoon.

I genuinely hope Finlay gets a good move this summer. He's kicked on a fair bit this season, and looks like a guy who knew what his weaknesses were and has addressed them. To a level where he's far too good for League Two now. He wasn't a great tackler when he came to us. Especially when he was left back at corners. That developed last season leaps and bounds. Now he's getting better and better at playing a pass at the right moment and his surging runs in between centre-back and full-back are excellent. He's clearly a quick and willing learner and that will do him good in the big time I reckon. Even if it might take him a few months to get fully firing. He's not the finished article. But he's got a bit of everything and he's clearly very coachable. With the right move to a team who will coach him further I think he'll go on to have a very decent full-time career. Airdrie might not be the best move financially for him. But with their style of play and McCabe's confidence in playing young guys, I think somewhere like that could be ideal for him. Certainly much better than QOS would've been as he was offered last year.

He must've been gutted to discover Station Park was astro when he took the job.

He absolutely did that after the whistle so he could post it on his Insta tonight with a caption like 'Battle Fever '

Southgate's presence has clearly had an impact on Butland

Rangers best tactics would be to simply pass the ball to a Celtic defender imo.

That's surely a foul on the Celtic boy in the build-up, no?

Absolutely not having that as a booking. Jesus Christ. Shameful stuff from Silva. Utterly mortifying cheating.

Carlo Pignatiello got booked twice not for kicking the ball away as such. Just for touching it after the whistle at Ochilview earlier this season. We had about five players booked for it in that game. Same ref a fortnight later then turned a blind eye to it.

Really odd stuff. I'd politely suggest that, in order to win a game you've lost 2-0, you'd probably need to muster more than one shot on target. In fact, in order to win a game nine weeks out of 10 you probably need more than one shot on target across 90 minutes. Surprised Mr Raymond McKinnon didn't just blame the wind like he did when we routinely defeated his Dundee United teams. That was surely the easy option.

That's one of the most comical goals I have ever seen. And I watch League Two football every week.

Brett, Durnan, Crighton, Blair, Div Wilson, Ross MacLean, Carlo, Tony Wallace and Greig Young are all signed up. Aron Lynas and Callum Wilson both have options for another year too iirc.

Aron Lynas got kicked in the head against Bonnyrigg for us a few weeks ago by a shoulder high boot. Right in full view of the assistant. Had blood pouring from the wound (which opened up again yesterday) and the referee didn't even give a foul. Who was that referee I hear you ask? Mr Jordan Curran.